Quotes for the Journey: Role Models Each person must live their life as a model for others. Rosa Parks

If I am walking with two other people, each of them will serve as my teacher.  I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.       -Confucius     Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused.  Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models.  We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great.  We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.        -Daniel J. Boorstin     Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were role models.  They weren't celebrities, or even particularly accomplished.  But they had some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.       -Donn Moomaw     The most important role models in people's lives, it seems, aren't superstars or household names.  They're 'everyday' people who quietly set examples for you--coaches, teachers, parents.  People about whom you say to yourself, perhaps not even consciously, 'I want to be like that.'        -Tim Foley     You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models.  Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about--never actually met.       -John Wilson      You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.       -Khalil Gibran

The young are looking for living models whom they can imitate and who are capable of rousing their enthusiasm and drawing them to a deeper kind of life.  More than anything else, the young need sure guides to go with them on the paths of liberation that God maps out for them.        - Bakole wa Ilunga

Children have more need of models than of critics.       -Joseph Joubert (also attributed to Carolyn Coats)

The best way to teach children restraint and generosity is to be a model of those qualities yourself.  If your children see that you want a particular item but refrain from buying it, either because it isn’t practical or because you can’t afford it, they will begin to understand restraint.  Likewise, if you donate books or clothing to charity, take them with you to distribute the items to teach them about generosity.        -Lawrence Balter

If you as parents cut corners, your children will too.  If you lie, they will too.  If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either.  And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.       -Marian Wright Edelman

You are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions.  And you teach others how to behave toward you.  While you cannot change other people, you can influence them through your own behaviors and actions.  By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life.       -Eric Allenbaugh

You've got to be careful whom you pattern yourself after because you're likely to become just like them.       -Rich Mayo

Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation.  If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play.        -Charlotte Davis-Kasl

Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents.  Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.        -Stephen R. Covey

I think it's an honor to be a role model to one person or maybe more than that.  If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do.  That's what it's all about.         -Tiger Woods

Don't worry that children never listen to you.  Worry that they are always watching you.       -Robert Fulghum

A troubled mother took her daughter to see Mohandas Gandhi, who was world-renowned for his great spiritual discipline.  It seems the young girl had become addicted to eating sweets, and her mother wanted Gandhi to speak to her about this harmful habit and convince her to drop it.  Upon hearing this request, Gandhi paused in silence and then told the mother, "Bring the girl back to me in three weeks and I will speak to her then."      Just as she was instructed, the mother returned with her daughter, and Gandhi, as he had promised, spoke to the girl about the detrimental effects of eating too many sweets.  He counseled her to give them up.       The mother gratefully thanked Gandhi, but was perplexed.  "Why," she asked him, "did you not speak to my daughter when we first came to you?"      "My good woman," Gandhi replied, "three weeks ago I myself was still addicted to sweets!"

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